OK, so my computer parts arrived yesterday, around noonish. i spent about 15 hours (i wish that was an exaggeration, but i’m serious) yesterday trying to get the damned thing to boot up, ended up having to go out and replace the video card (it got zapped when the old computer died, apparently)- i ended up with an All-in-wonder 9600 pro. so all told i’ve spent nearly $1000 this week trying to get this computer back up fo snuff.
So after the 15 hours i finally got it to run an install of windows 2000- and, lo and behold, the windows 2000 disk is just flaky enough that it somehow figured out a way to skip past the account creation phase of the install, but the install otherwise went perfectly. so i’ve got a windows 2000 login screen with no accounts to log into. MUST DESTROY BILL GATES. anyway, now I have to re-install it again. why oh why cant these things ever be simple?